The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-02

will SOON be shutdown. n you were OF
age when the war broke out you are now
at least forty eight Many OF you have
passed into the sixties and seventies
therefore It IL appropriate that hold two
great lights for your illumination-the
example OF Christian Admirals consecrat-
| ed TO Christ and their country, Admiral
Foote and Admiral Farragut Had the
Christian religion been a cowardly thing
they would have had nothing TO do with
It in It's faith they lived and died. In
our Brooklyn Navy-yard Admiral
Foote held prayer meetings and con.
Quoted revival on the receiving
ship North Carolina, and on Sabbath, FAR
out at sea, followed the chaplain with
religious exhortation. In early life on
| board the.sloop- of-war Natcheh impressed
by the words OF a sailor, he gave his spare
time for two weeks TO the Bible, and, at
the end Of that, declared cpenlys 'Hencc-
| forth, under all circumstances l will act
| for God" His last words, while dying at
| the Astor House, New York, weres ~
| thank God for all his goodness to me. He
| has been very good to me-" When he en-
tered Heaven he did not have to run a
blockade, for it was amid the cheers of
| great welcome. The other Christian Ad.
miral will be honorcd until the day when
the fees from above shall HEX up the
waters from beneath, and there shall be
no more sea.
oh, while old oceans breast
Bears white sail,
And Gods stars to rest
Guide through the gale
Men will him ne'er forget
Old hearts OF oak.
Farragut, Farragut
Thunderbou stroke!
According TO his own statement, Farra
gut was very loose In his morals in early
manhood, and practiccd all kinds OF sin.
Une day he was called into the cabin OF
his father, who was a shipmaster. His
father said.
David, what are you going to be, any.
howl"
He answered!
lam going to follow the sea-"
"Follow the sea-" said the father, land
be kicked about the worlI and die in a
foreign hospitali'
mo- said David, II am going to COM
nand, like you"
No." said the father ia boy of TsHy
habits will never command any thing
and his father burst into tears and left
tho cabin.
From that day David Farragut started
on new life. Captain Pennington, an
honored elder OF this church, was with
him in most of his battles and had his in
innate friendship, and he confirms, what
had heard elsewhere, that Farragut was
good and Christian. In every great crisis
OF lie he Gsked and obtained the
divine direction. When IN Mobile
bay, the monitor Tccumsoh sunk from a
torpedo, and the great war ship Brooklyn,
that waste lead the squadron, turned back.
he said he was at loss to know whether
to advance or treat, and he says:
Il prayed: %, God who created man
and gave him reason, direct what to do.
Shall. ] go ont And voice commanded
me! Go or And went on"
Was there ever more touching Chris
tiln letter than that VIII CT he wrote to
his wife from his flagship II lrtfordi
Ny D Arrest WIFh-I write and leave this
letter for you. l am going into Mobile Bay IA
the morning. II Col is mY leader. and hope he
is, and in him plac" my trust II he thinks I
is the proper place for mc to die l am ready TO
submit to his VIII in that III IL other things.
God bless and preserve you, NY darling, and
my dear boy if any thinG should happen to me.
May his blessings rest upon YOU aud your
dear mother, and AL your sisters and their
children.
Cheerful to the end, he said, on board
took:
q at would be well If died now, in har
ness"
The sublime Episcopal service For the
dead was never moe appropriately read
than over his cashet, and wei did all the
forts of New York harbor thunder as his
body was brought to our wharf, and well
did the minute guns sound and the bells
toll az in a procession having IN It's ranks
the President of the United States and
his Cabinet, and the mighty men of land
and sea, the Old Admiral was carried
amid hundreds Of thousands of uncov-
cred heads on Broadway, and laid on his
pillow Of dust in beautiful Wocdlawn,
September -, amid the ponIp of our au-
tumnal forests.
Ye veterans who fought and sailed un-
der him, take your AdmiraPs God and
Christ for your God and Christ. After
few more conflicts you, too, viii rest.
For the few remaining fights with sin and
death and he'll make ready. Strip your
vessel for the fray; hang the sheet chains
over the side; send down the topganant
masts: barricade the wheel; rig in the
flying jib- boom; steer straight for tho
shining shore, and hear the shout of the
Great Commander of earth and Heaven
as he CRIES from the shrouds:
ITO him that overcometh, will 9Sc Ia
midst of the Paradise of God"